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Swiss Encryption Firm Crypto AG At Centre Of Spying Allegation

Was a Swiss cryptography company acting as a front for America's CIA during the cold war, in order to eavesdrop on other countries?

The Cryptography vulnerability first detailed in 1998, still has the potential to impact modern websites

ANALYSIS: Quantum computing's potential to crack encryption worries the NSA, so it's developing standards and strategies for a post-quantum world

Google and CWI Institute have been able to create two PDFs that hash to the same SHA-1

The government's scientific adviser has recommended an active approach to developing distributed ledgers for service delivery

Can the notorious snooping bureau inspire the future defenders of cyber space?

Jean-Jacques Quisquater tells TechWeek media reports his machine was hacked by GCHQ or NSA snoops were "premature"

Google admits to flaws and sends out update code to manufacturers, but no timeline on when users will see the benefits

The upcoming Black Hat conference will include the disclosure of 35 zero-day flaws across a number of sectors and the release of 98 security tools

Russian firm can't crack Gauss' secret

Fujitsu and its Japanese partners have taken 148 days to carry out a cryptanalysis that had been estimated to take hundreds of thousands of years

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Second world war codebreaking centre Bletchley Park has been given a £250,000 government grant to pay for repairs to the site